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Cybersecurity Resilience Lead

Microsoft· Security Research
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Hybrid (Australia)Full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Cybersecurity Resilience Lead for Microsoft Defender Experts in Australia. Leads proactive resilience engagements, aligns stakeholders, and delivers readiness improvements to help customers anticipate, withstand, and recover from cybersecurity incidents. Works with incident responders, threat hunters, infrastructure engineers, reverse engineers and operations teams to improve incident readiness and durable response capability.

Responsibilities

  • Set resilience engagement objectives, customer outcomes, priorities and evidence requirements; lead proactive workstreams across enterprise on-premises and cloud environments.
  • Design and deliver readiness assessments, tabletop exercises, cyber range simulations, playbook development and threat modelling engagements that improve incident response readiness.
  • Translate technical and operational findings into clear priorities, risk reduction actions and executive-ready recommendations.
  • Evaluate customer incident response plans, roles, escalation paths, communication models, evidence readiness and recovery dependencies; establish maturity and validation needs.
  • Lead customer workshops and stakeholder discussions that align technical and operational teams, executives and other core business functions around practical response improvements.
  • Partner with incident response, threat hunting, infrastructure, reverse engineering, product and operations teams to improve service capabilities and offering quality.
  • Use customer feedback, field insights and lessons learned to improve resilience offerings, engagement methods and DART readiness practices.
  • Maintain engagement documentation covering objectives, decisions, risks, dependencies and next actions; support final reporting and lessons learned.

Qualifications

  • A relevant degree in Computer Science, Computer Security, Statistics, Mathematics or related field, or equivalent practical experience in cybersecurity, incident management, resilience, project management or related operations, AND 5+ years of industry experience.
  • Demonstrated experience developing or delivering cybersecurity workshops, tabletop exercises, readiness assessments, incident response plans or operational resilience engagements.
  • Demonstrated ability to guide stakeholders, build agreement and translate technical issues into practical actions for teams with different levels of technical knowledge.
  • Experience applying cybersecurity or resilience frameworks such as NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001 or equivalent guidance in customer-facing work.
  • Strong customer-facing written and verbal communication, including executive briefings, facilitation and clear documentation.
  • Evidence of sound judgement, accurate record keeping, operational discipline and effective follow-the-sun handovers.
  • Flexibility to work non-standard business hours that may include evening, nighttime, weekends and/or holidays.

Skills

Required:Cybersecurity workshopsStakeholder managementExecutive communication
Nice to have:Incident response / resilience
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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